AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

12172369735	Metonymy	an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations	0
12172384547	Synecdoche	A part of something used to refer to the whole	1
12172391873	Apostrophe	The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she is able to reply	2
12172401949	Litote	Understatement	3
12172404546	Simile	A type of comparison that uses the word like or as.	4
12172410148	Metaphor	An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as	5
12172417034	Personification	The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects	6
12172429059	Anthropomorphism	The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	7
12172437304	Allusion	A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge	8
12172446648	Zeugma	A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning.	9
12172450117	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure	10
12172462770	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order	11
12172467883	Anadiplosis	The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	12
12172478837	Anastrophe	Inversion or reversal of usual order of words	13
12172487565	Anaphora	The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses	14
12172497599	Antanaclasis	Repetition of a word in two different senses	15
12172506897	Chiasmus	Inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases.	16
12172509805	Anthimeria	The substitution of one part of speech for another	17
12172514640	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions between related clauses	18
12172526395	Polysyndeton	The use of several conjunctions	19
12172534588	Epistophe	The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses	20
12172546567	Epithet	A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name	21
12172553752	Ploce	A word is separated by way of emphasis	22
12172564989	Synthesia	A combination of the senses	23
12172564990	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words	24
12172581065	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	25
12172604069	Consonance	The repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	26
12172610265	Hyperbole	An exaggeration for effect	27
12172617758	Idiom	A saying, phrase, or fixed expression in a culture that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning	28
12172648564	Oxymoron	Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings	29
12172695725	Onomatopoeia	A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning	30
12172706586	Understatement	Deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point	31
12172726339	Paradox	A contradictory statement or contradictory ideas, but upon close inspection, seems to contain some truth	32
12172750401	Juxtaposition	The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	33
12172766002	Parallel Structure	A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appear in a sentence or paragraph	34
12172786105	Diction	Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality, concreteness/ abstraction, Litinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative.	35
12173413422	Syntax	The order of words in a sentence	36
12173417360	Aphorism	A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner	37
12173429720	Malapropism	Using words, particularly polysyllabic words, incorrectly	38
12173493781	Non Sequitor Fallacy	An even more illogical connection of cause/effect, in which event A clearly has nothing to do with event B. The evidence offered does not support the conclusion that is reached.	39
12173537876	Post-Hoc Fallacy	Just because event A happened before event B, you assume that event A caused event B	40
12173559724	Ad Hominem Argument	You attack the person instead of the person's argument or point of view on a subject	41
12173569975	Red Herring	You intentionally digress from the real issue being discussed, introducing a side issue that has nothing to do with the real issue under discussion - in an attempt to remove attention from the real issue	42
12173607933	Hasty/Sweeping Generalization	You've reached a conclusion based on only a little evidence that might be relevant but is not typical	43
12173638451	Straw Man	A misrepresentation of the opponent's view; making claims that no one actually believes to be true.	44
12173653456	Appeal to Authority	In a text, the reference to words, actions, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting a claim, generalization, or conclusion	45
12173673011	Appeal to Tradition	Fallacy in which something is accepted a true or better because it's the "way it's always been done."	46
12173685981	Appeal to Religion	Occurs when someone argues that you must first accept the truth of a statement in order to be able to rationally accept the truth of the statement	47
12173706672	Ethos	The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	48
12173716181	Pathos	The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience	49
12173725192	Logos	The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas	50
12173746641	Begging the Question	Asking the reader to assume that something is true without proving it first - especially flawed if that "something" is controversial	51